PIA News Service - Friday, Oct. 25, 2013

Tandag City, Oct. 25 (PIA) – “The city
government of Tandag strongly supports the National Filarias program”, said
Mayor Roxanne Pimentel on her message during the declaration of Surigao del Sur
as Filaria-Free on Wednesday.

According to Pimentel, record showed that Tandag
City has identified 104 cases diagnosed with filariasis in 2001. In response to
this, the past administration ordered the city health officer to support and
coordinate for the implementation of mass drug administration (MDA) to 21
barangays. Through massive implementation of MDA, the cases dropped to 68, then
six cases in 2011 and the recent evaluation conducted showed that the city is
now free of such disease.

“Our quest towards addressing health problems
and concerns in the city of Tandag doesn’t stop with the declaration… It is our
continued challenge and commitment for the betterment of the people and
tomorrow’s people of Tandag City,” Mayor said.

Healthy Tandaganons is her second pillar of
development or known as her second legislative agenda and aimed to launch soon
as “Dengue-Free Tandag City. (PIA-Surigao del Sur)